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|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation  analysis;  Conversational  storytelling;  Multimodality;  Resumption; but; anyway;
 
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|Abstract=This paper investigates  resumption  as  a multimodal  achievement  within  (story)telling sequences  in  English  everyday interaction.  Resumption  here  refers  to a  particular  interactional  practice  where  a  speaker  returns  to  his/her  telling after its progression  was temporarily put  on  hold  in  favour  of  an intervening course of action. Returning  to  an on-hold  course  of action  poses  an  interactional problem  for  interlocutors,  because,  as  has  been  widely  established  by  conversation  analytic research  (e.g.  Sacks  et  al.,  1974;  Schegloff,  2007),  each  utterance  is,  by  default,  built  upon  and  understood  in  relation  to
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the  talk  of  a  just-prior  utterance.  Resumptions  are  a  solution  to a  practical  participant's  problem,  as  they  provide interlocutors  with  systematic  means  to  make it known to their co-participants that what comes next is not a continuation of just-prior talk or  the  start  of  some  new  course  of  action, but rather,  a return to a previously halted,  unfinished  course  of action. Within  the  framework  of conversation  analysis, this  study provides  a  close  examination  of resumptions  in their interactional  and sequential  context. It  focuses on a  recurrent  linguistic  format  identified  in  the  data,  namely,  resumptions
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|Abstract=This paper addresses a recurrent participant's problem in everyday interaction: how the speaker of an extended, multiunit, (story)telling turn is able to resume their telling after its progressivity was temporarily halted due to an intervening course of action. It investigates resumption as an interactional practice whereby tellers use special devices to make it known to their co-participants that what comes next is not a continuation of just-prior talk, but a return to a previously suspended (story)telling sequence. Using video recordings of mundane interactions in English as data, the study discusses some of the regularities involved in how these special devices are used and identifies a systematic, multimodal practice for resumption. The study focuses on resumptions prefaced with the discourse markers ‘but’ and ‘anyway’, which seem to be used interchangeably in this sequential position but also exhibit subtle differences in terms of their interactional import. Further, video data reveals that simply focusing on the verbal features of resumptions would provide a somewhat narrow view of how they are accomplished in co-present interaction. Resuming a suspended line of telling involves the teller's complex and systematic – but also, situated – use of verbal, prosodic as well as embodied resources.
prefaced with the discourse markers but and  anyway. However, video data reveals that simply focusing on the verbal features of resumptions would provide a somewhat narrow view of how they are accomplished in co-present interaction.
 
 
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Helisten2017
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Marika Helisten
Title Resumptions as multimodal achievements in conversational (story)tellings
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation analysis, Conversational storytelling, Multimodality, Resumption, but, anyway
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Year 2017
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.01.014
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This paper addresses a recurrent participant's problem in everyday interaction: how the speaker of an extended, multiunit, (story)telling turn is able to resume their telling after its progressivity was temporarily halted due to an intervening course of action. It investigates resumption as an interactional practice whereby tellers use special devices to make it known to their co-participants that what comes next is not a continuation of just-prior talk, but a return to a previously suspended (story)telling sequence. Using video recordings of mundane interactions in English as data, the study discusses some of the regularities involved in how these special devices are used and identifies a systematic, multimodal practice for resumption. The study focuses on resumptions prefaced with the discourse markers ‘but’ and ‘anyway’, which seem to be used interchangeably in this sequential position but also exhibit subtle differences in terms of their interactional import. Further, video data reveals that simply focusing on the verbal features of resumptions would provide a somewhat narrow view of how they are accomplished in co-present interaction. Resuming a suspended line of telling involves the teller's complex and systematic – but also, situated – use of verbal, prosodic as well as embodied resources.

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